Remember the "good old days" when Maryland actually had money in its Transportation Trust Fund? Over the last six years, Gov. Martin O'Malley and his buddies have transferred over $1 billion from the Transportation Trust Fund for their pet projects, and to prop up the state budget.

Now, of course, our roads and bridges are in need of repair, but there's no money in the trust fund. The governor's solution? A massive gas tax hike.

However, anyone who believes the funds raised by this huge tax hike on Marylanders will go to repair roads and bridges is naive. The majority of revenue collected through these taxes goes to mass transit, (i.e., the Baltimore-Washington area), not for road construction and repair here on the Eastern Shore.

In addition, Sen. Mike Miller of Baltimore has buried in the gas tax hike bill authority for local lawmakers to spend gas tax money on school construction in Baltimore, instead of roads.

This should be completely unacceptable to every Marylander, especially those on the Eastern Shore.